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TomatoNut95
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Garlic Chive seeds!
I've been harvesting lots of garlic chive seed lately from my two plants. I plan to keep a few seed, but if someone wants any, I'm happy to give some away.
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pepperhead212
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Those are something that I don't need seeds for - they re-seed themselves more than just about anything around here, and have become a weed, but not something I mind! I can't figure out why they do that, yet the regular, purple flowered chives, while they flower just as much in the spring, don't spread like the garlic chives. I have at least a dozen clumps of those, mostly behind my shed, out of the way, and I never have to plant them!
If the bees didn't like the flowers so much I would use my weedwacker and give the chives a "haircut", before the flowers open up much. Now, I just leave them for the bees, and they keep spreading! My neighbors probably wonder what that stuff is in their lawn that smells like garlic when they mow!
If the bees didn't like the flowers so much I would use my weedwacker and give the chives a "haircut", before the flowers open up much. Now, I just leave them for the bees, and they keep spreading! My neighbors probably wonder what that stuff is in their lawn that smells like garlic when they mow!
I agree!